Women protest Kavanaugh's nomination outside the Supreme Court

Record ID: 1358309

  • Title: Women protest Kavanaugh's nomination outside the Supreme Court
  • Date: 28th September 2018
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 28, 2018) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS PROFANITY*** VARIOUS OF WOMEN MARCHING TO U.S. SUPREME COURT WITH HANDS UP, CHANTING: "KAVANAUGH HAS GOT TO GO. HEY HEY, HO HO, KAVANAUGH HAS GOT TO GO." WOMEN MARCHING TO SUPREME COURT CHANTING: "SHOW ME WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE. THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE." PROTESTERS HOLDING POSTERS READING "KAVA NOPE" IN FRONT OF SUPREME COURT BUILDING, CHANTING "NO JUSTICE. NO PEACE." PROTESTERS WITH POSTERS CHANTING "THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED." CHILDREN HOLDING POSTERS, CHANTING "KAVANAUGH HAS GOT TO GO." SENATORS DICK BLUMENTHAL (A DEMOCRAT FROM CONNECTICUT), KAMALA HARRIS (A DEMOCRAT FROM CALIFORNIA) AND MAZIE HIRONO (A DEMOCRAT FROM HAWAII) STANDING BY PODIUM (SOUNDBITE) (English) SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS (A DEMOCRAT FROM CALIFORNIA), SAYING: "Someone speaks with such force about it being a sham, and it...and then talking about what his colleagues should and should not do in a threatening manner. Like a bully. We will not be bullied." SENATORS ON STAGE (SOUNDBITE) (English) SENATOR MAZIE HIRONO (A DEMOCRAT FROM HAWAII), SAYING: "He revealed himself for what he really is when he accused the Democrats of a vast left wing conspiracy to do him in. We're going to put a conspiracy theorist and believer on the Supreme Court, which is supposed to, which is supposed to be people who are objective, who are not partisan. But yesterday, yesterday we know he was speaking to one person -- President Trump." (SOUNDBITE) (English) SENATOR DICK BLUMENTHAL (A DEMOCRAT FROM CONNECTICUT), SAYING: "Yesterday we saw a profile in courage, a woman who will give inspiration and heart to millions and millions of other." SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (A DEMOCRAT FROM NEW YORK), APPROACHING MICROPHONE (SOUNDBITE) (English) SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (A DEMOCRAT FROM NEW YORK), SAYING: "We are speaking our truth because Dr. Blasey Ford had the courage to speak her truth. She will not be ignored. She will not be denied. She will not be disbelieved. We hear her." ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO ASKING SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT TO RAISE THEIR HANDS AND FOR OTHERS TO LOOK AROUND THE CROWD (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO, SAYING: "I never tried to find justice for my pain because justice was never an option. And for me speaking up meant reliving one of the worst fucking moments of my entire life. It meant recognizing that my attacker was alive. So I want to thank personally Dr. Ford for being so strong yesterday for our country as a patriot." FOLK SINGER AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST JOAN BAEZ APPROACHING MICROPHONE
  • Embargoed: 12th October 2018 18:57
  • Keywords: Kavanaugh Supreme Court sexual misconduct Ford Senate
  • Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
  • City: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Lawmaking,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA0018ZJLJD3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Women marched to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday (September 28) to protest the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, one day after a congressional hearing into sexual misconduct allegations against the judge.
    The hearing in a Republican-led committee gripped the country, with a university professor named Christine Blasey Ford accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Kavanaugh denied the accusation.
    Democratic senators joined the protest, taking to the microphone to blast the nominee, saying he was unfit for the position.
    "Someone speaks with such force about it being a sham, and it...and then talking about what his colleagues should and should not do in a threatening manner. Like a bully. We will not be bullied," Senator Kamala Harris of California said.
    Ford, a university professor in California, has accused Kavanaugh of trying to attack her and remove her clothing in the early 1980s when they were both high school students in a Maryland suburb outside Washington.
    "We are speaking our truth because Dr. Blasey Ford had the courage to speak her truth. She will not be ignored. She will not be denied. She will not be disbelieved. We hear her," Kirstin Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, said.
    During the protest, actress Alyssa Milano described her experience coping with sexual assault and asked people there to raise their hands if they too had been sexually assaulted.
    Folk singer and civil rights activist Joan Baez also brought her voice to the protest.
    "Ain't gonna let no Kavanaugh turn me around, no, turn me around, no, turn me around. Ain't gonna let no Kavanaugh turn me around, keep on walking," she sang.
    The committee, with tempers flaring on both sides, met and approved President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday but moderate Republican Senator Jeff Flake called for an FBI investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against the judge before a final Senate vote.
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